I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.